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Arizona Republican congressional candidate Abe Hamadeh is forging ahead with his campaign as he vies for a House seat against GOP candidate Blake Masters. Both men ran for office in 2022 in the Grand Canyon State.
Hamadeh announced last year that he would be running for outgoing Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., and has since been endorsed by powerhouse Republican leaders like President Donald Trump and Arizona firebrand Kari Lake, who ran for governor in 2022. According to recent polls, he is running a tight race against Masters in District 8.
On X, Hamadeh announced a new five-point voter integrity plan that he would work toward achieving in U.S. Congress if he is successfully elected in Arizona this year. His five points include the implementation of the following:
- Voter I.D.,
- Banning ranked-choice voting,
- Withholding funding from cities that allow non-citizens to vote,
- Strict penalties for election fraud,
- Banning corporate funding from elections.
The congressional hopeful shared more details about his plan with The Gateway Pundit, noting, “I firmly believe we must implement a unified standard of voting in order to achieve this. My comprehensive election integrity plan will achieve just that, and I look forward to proposing these policies on day one in Congress.”
As previously reported by RSBN, Hamadeh previously ran for the office of attorney general in Arizona in 2022, and he lost to his Democrat opponent, Kris Mayes, by a slim margin of around 300 votes.
Hamadeh has alleged that AG Mayes is “illegitimate” in the wake of the razor-thin margin of victory in the Arizona midterm elections, which have been fraught with reports of irregularities on Election Day. Hamadeh has even stated that Mayes “stole that position.”
In 2023, he filed the second of two lawsuits in the Maricopa Superior Court alleging that tabulation problems in Maricopa County in 2022 caused voters to be disenfranchised, thus facilitating an allegedly dubious victory for Mayes.
Hamadeh’s strong commitment to fighting for election integrity as a prospective U.S. congressman would “restore confidence in our democracy and protect the fundamental right to vote as Americans,” per TGP.